bug#43114: 26.3; (gnus-display-mime) does not handle “post” accents

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:00:21 +0200, Christophe Troestler 
>>>>> <christophe.troestler@umons.ac.be> said:

    Christophe> On 30 August 2020 at 17:29 CEST, Andreas Schwab 
<schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
    >> 
    >> On Aug 30 2020, Christophe Troestler wrote:
    >> 
    >>> When running (gnus-display-mime) on the attached message, it displays
    >>> “J’ai rate´...” instead of “J’ai raté...”.
    >> 
    >> This has nothing to do with gnus.  Characters from different fonts
    >> cannot be composed.  It just means that your default font does not
    >> have a glyph for the COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT.

    Christophe> Ah, thanks, that makes sense.  It is not my default font (which
    Christophe> supports the composition) but the one picked up by HTML 
rendering.
    Christophe> How can I substitute/influence the fonts chosen by mm-shr?  
(This
    Christophe> problem seldom happens, I do not want to disable the use of
    Christophe> proportional fonts for HTML emails.)

shr/eww uses the 'variable-pitch' face for displaying proportional
text. Just M-x customize-face it.

Robert